Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 105 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.95% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.2 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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